Restaurant vacancies fill up at Sherman Oaks Galleria.After months with little on its plate, the Sherman Oaks Galleria Sherman Oaks Galleria is a shopping mall and business center located in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California at the corner of Ventura and Sepulveda Boulevards in the San Fernando Valley. Locals colloquially refer to the mall simply as "the Galleria. is starting to fill up with new restaurant clients. The center has inked deals with El Torito The format developed by Phoenix Technologies and IBM that has become the standard for creating bootable CD-ROMs on the Intel platform. El Torito provides only the format. In order to make a CD-ROM bootable, the correct boot images must be placed on the disc, and the target computer must Grill and Romano's Macaroni Grill Macaroni Grill (also known as Romano's Macaroni Grill) is a chain of Italian food casual dining restaurants in the US and Canada. The chain and brand name is owned by Brinker International. , leases that will shore up what had been a 26 percent retail vacancy rate at the entertainment and office complex at Sepulveda and Ventura boulevards. El Torito Grill will occupy the 8,000-square-foot forward space opposite The Cheesecake Factory that had for a brief time housed Bobby Loco's. Macaroni Grill opened at the center today. The opening of El Torito Grill, slated for November, marks the first location for the restaurant format in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . El Torito Grill, owned by El Torito Restaurants Inc., operates six units elsewhere in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, and in several other states. The concept is more upscale compared to the El Torito chain, with a menu that features native and contemporary Mexican dishes, grilled specialties and a large selection of top-shelf tequilas. Where most of the El Torito entree selections are in the $10 range, the Grill menu features items as high as $16.99. Macaroni Grill, a division of Brinker International Inc. that launched in 1988, now operates units in Burbank, Northridge, Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. , Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. and Santa Clarita along with the new Sherman Oaks store. The restaurant features lighter Italian dishes such as fire-grilled chicken and shrimp and selections of low-carb and low fat dishes. The space El Torito will occupy has been leased twice before since the Galleria's renovation into an entertainment center was completed in 2001. Prego, a part of the Spectrum Restaurant Group, closed in 2003 when its parent company filed Chap. 11. The next tenant, Bobby Loco's, an independent operator, shuttered late in 2004 after about six months of business. Observers have noted that Prego's high price points limited the restaurant's opportunities in the area, however, neighboring P.F. Chang's , with similar pricing, has consistently done well at the Galleria location. |
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